...” anew in this otherwise commonplace phrase. The chapter identifies the features of felt time, how these rhetors in particular describe and live it—that is, bear witness to it—and how they try to help older generations of lawmakers grasp it with an urgency approximating their own. Climate Action Summit...

...This chapter argues that the British novelists of the early eighteenth century adopted three elements of natural philosophy in fashioning their narratives: surrogate witnessing, the contrived experiment, and the induction-based reasoning that could translate the findings of a single experiment...

... chronotope: the spatiotemporal and social world it projects as its own. assembly plant Gerardo impresario San Diego CA Dara daughter of Inés debate rational Internet language pícaro s border frontera “I” witness migrant s unauthorized narrative s Zacatecas Bakhtin M M chronotope hearsay...

... of catastrophe through the gaze of the camera's lens. It uses the medium and witnessing of photography to question the ethics of targeting civilians during war....

... of improving experiments by working backward from a parody, and finds the origins of the genre both in broader histories of experiment and in the experimental literature of 18th-century British improvement. Improving experiments resembled experiments in natural science in their practice of virtual witnessing...

...The Introduction focuses on the tension of witnessing versus historical objectivity. This has parallel contentions through history versus memory, knowledge and experience, distance and proximity. While outlining the book’s trajectory and purpose the Introduction poses central questions about what...

... Legionnaires. Denis establishes both the natural landscape, the natives of Djibouti (and, implicitly, the spectators) as witnesses of this sensual, nonsexual community. Dutoit Ulysse Freud Sigmund Cartesian dualism and human subject and world aesthetic ethic of Resnais Alain sadism and nonsadism violence...

... hemispherism Americas Caygill Howard evolutionism cultural Hartman Saidiya borders bordering fascism imagination Kant Immanuel Nazism assemblage collage testimonial witnessing Videla Jorge Rafael photography Bains Paul Deleuze Gilles Guattari Félix Maturana Humberto Paternosto César Varela...

...This chapter frames rhetoric as an art of intensification and asks how one form of intensification (the rapidly changing climate) is altering another (rhetoric). It introduces the key terms that the study elucidates—magnitude, presence, witnessing, and feeling—and it wonders how disciplines...

...This article focuses on the incorporation, through expert witnessing, of evidentiary findings based on modern medicine into family (and civil) law litigation in Egypt. It considers litigants' strategies regarding the use of documents based on modern medical inspections in the litigation process...

... expansive arts and acts of witnessing, presence, and feeling. Each chapter examines a “departure” from rhetoric’s playbook—a memorial ceremony, a pair of hearings featuring BIPOC youth climate activists, a data visualization, a public urban art installation—and finds therein facts wrapped with feeling, felt...

... literature. Can something new be said on the subject? Another concern relates to the nature of testimony and witnessing. How important is it to have witnessed? The next few chapters examine amongst other things Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Forbidden Representation” and Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved...

... qualities of music heartbreak romance aural witnessing dareen-wadaag (feeling-sharing) aurality The hard task is to love, and music is a skill that prepares [us] for this most difficult task. John Blacking, How Musical Is Man? “If you feel these things Christina—if you feel...

...A reliable determination of the facts is a major concern in all legal systems, including Islamic law. A judge, in trying to establish the facts of a case, may call in expert witnesses, who are valued for their special ability to interpret material indicators and convey local knowledge and customary...